Friday, January 17, 2014

Photos: What’s new at the UMF beneficio

The first coffees of the 2014 harvest are in at the
beneficio! As we discussed in a previous post, we made some changes to
how we are running things at the beneficio this year. But we couldn’t do this
without making some changes to the beneficio itself.

First, and most importantly, we turned our four large
fermentation tanks into eight smaller tanks. This is important because it
allows each farmer to have two small tanks, meaning they can bring coffee more
continually:

Second, we are building another two solar dryers. One will
be a large solar dryer, totaling four, so that each farmer has access to their
own dryer. The other will be a smaller dryer that we designed in the
off-season. This dryer will be used mainly for experimentation, and will also serve
as a model to farmers who produce small amounts of coffee and cannot afford to
build a larger solar dryer:

Third, we have our custom-built coffee cherry size sorting
machine up and running. This machine will sort out under-ripe and over-ripe
cherries that would otherwise lower the quality of the coffee:

Fourth, we have installed a biodigester. This biodigester
will use anaerobic fermentation to treat coffee wastewater and coffee pulp,
ensuring that we are not contaminating the environment around us. Additionally,
it will produce methane gas that can be used to run our processing equipment.
More on this in another post.

We have also made several smaller changes including a newly
designed valve in our upper tanks that will facilitate coffee flow, lowering
our processing water usage, and check boxes in our wastewater tubing to prevent
blockages:

All of these changes will help UMF to better achieve our
goals of quality, training, and sustainability at the beneficio.

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